For all you cellphone videographers looking to broadcast your oh-so-important daily lives’ activities to the ether with that handy-dandy video camera you call a smartphone, Qik has finally announced their highly anticipated public beta. What, you didn’t realize that smartphone of yours was a full-fledged wireless video camera capable of streaming live video to the…
Is your MobileMe working?
Apple’s problem-prone MobileMe launch is apparently still experiencing growing-pains. My MobileMe email still isn’t pushing correctly. It’s a hit or miss proposition at this point. Strangely, my push email was working just fine last week. And, apparently, I’m not alone, CNN Money is reporting that some MobileMe users are still out of luck with their…
Webkit improvements in iPhone OS 2.0 – Safari performance jumps with new iPhone OS
iPhone 3G upgraders and anyone having upgraded to the iPhone 2.0 OS on their first-generation iPhone will likely already know that the web-browsing experience, which was undeniably tops in the smartphone market, has been improved. Web pages load faster, regardless of whether 3G, EDGE, or WiFi is being used – overall web-surfing just seems that…
iPhone to get wireless printing support?
Now, wouldn’t that be nice? There’s nothing more annoying than being almost completely digital and wireless in your daily life, only to have to resort to awkward file transfers in order to get that document off your mobile phone and printed to hard-copy. Of course, printing documents on paper kind of defeats the goal of…
WordPress application for iPhone coming soon to AppStore
Mobile blogging clients for the iPhone are every blogger’s dream application, us included. With the huge display and newly minted 3G radio, the iPhone 3G is poised to be a mobile blogging tool no unlike the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Of course, the new, lower priced of the Nokia N810 features a larger display and…
iPhone 3G stock dries up in US
How many of you out there were thinking you’d just hold off on scoring yourself an Phone 3G for a week or so in hopes of avoiding those multi-hour lines? Bad news, folks. Daring Fireball has found, after a bit of detective-work, that iPhone 3G supplies in the US are virtually bone-dry. Following on reports…
Pwnage Tool 2.0 Still Not Ready For Prime-time – Latest iPhone Jailbreak More Difficult Than Handy
There’s just something about sticking it to “the man.” Sure, jailbreaking an iPhone is sticking “it” to Steve Jobs, which is or isn’t as satisfying (depending on your point of view) as sticking it to more prominent authorities. But, it sure beats sitting back and taking what they give you. The latest iPhone jailbreak solution…
CheckWord Keeps Scrabble Players Honest – iPhone Application Checks Scrabble Words
If there’s one thing you can count on while playing Scrabble is that someone will inevitably try to pass off a legit-sounding word as valid. But, unless your vocabulary is up to dictionary-levels, you’re going to need to look up the word to prove your shady opponent wrong. Too bad most of us are too…
Pwnage Tool 2.0 Launched – Newest iPhone Jailbreak Solution for iPhone and iPhone 3G
True to their promise of bringing the world yet another round of iPhone-jailbreaking madness, the iPhone Dev Team has gone live with their Pwnage Tool 2.0 application. The iPhone Dev Team apparenty wanted to push the tool out in to the wild ahead of any official launch – which basically means eager iPhone jailbreakers get…
Twinkle Hits AppStore – Location-Based Twitter Client for iPhone
Our favorite location-based Twitter client for the iPhone has finally hit the Apple AppStore. In addition to native iPhone applications like Twitterrific, Twinkle brings the convenience of a native Twitter client to the iPhone’s official application repository. We’ve been playing with Twinkle for some time now on jailbroken first-generation iPhones, and it was a shame…